Is the MIPS kernel buildable from HEAD?

[Jayachandran C.]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:59 AM, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <AANLkTi=FZrdjE0KoUHvOiB9hyz5ZDWepS9743ghAw9SU at mail.gmail.com>
>            "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran at gmail.com> writes:
> : On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:43 AM, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> : > In message: <32AB5C9615CC494997D9ABB1DB12783C024C875590 at SJ-EXCH-1.adaranet.com>
> : >            Patrick Mahan <PMahan at adaranet.com> writes:
> : > : Is it possible to build the MIPS kernel from HEAD?  Or is the
> : > : current development still external to the HEAD branch?
> : >
> : > Yes.  The tip of head is where the mips action is these days.  There
> : > is no external development branch.
> : >
> : > There is one issue, however.  If you are building for one of the
> : > 64-bit processors a 64-bit kernel, then the required userland won't
> : > build.  There's still issues that need to be sorted out...
> :
> : The 64-bit userland builds for me with  -DWITHOUT_CDDL -DWITHOUT_USB
> : -DWITHOUT_BLUETOOTH  -DWITHOUT_RESCUE - are you referring to these, or
> : are there other issues?
>
> I can do a buildworld now without any of these flags.  I don't know
> what the bluetooth issue is/was, but it doesn't kill the build.  I

If I remember correctly, one of those uses ld to convert a binary blob
to a object file, and that failed because the generated object was not
of the correct abi. I had thought it it be a toolchain/bfd issue, but
did not dig further.

JC.